Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interests are clearly at stake. Some French commanders quietly continue to participate in infantry exercises with NATO forces in West Germany. French ships openly joined some 50 other vessels of the U.S., Britain, Italy and Greece in the alliance's "Operation Eden Apple" naval maneuvers in the Mediterranean last week...
...invade another country. But in their final communiqué, they issued a double-edged warning that 1) they were "wholly determined to defend the members of the alliance against any armed attack," and 2) "Any Soviet intervention directly or indirectly affecting the situation in Europe or in the Mediterranean would create an international crisis with grave consequences...
...included deep Turkish carpeting. De Gaulle was attended by a nubile Turkish blonde clad in a red veil, blue tunic and diaphanous harem pants. Local wags had suggested that De Gaulle had an even chance of sighting a Soviet warship en route to join the Russian fleet in the Mediterranean. Though nothing was said about the impressive Russian naval buildup, De Gaulle had ordered a fat file on the Soviet fleet a week before the trip...
...death and despair that distinguish his later work. Like Goethe, who on his deathbed cried out for light, Camus also desperately searched for light. For him, it was a twofold love, intellectual and physical-the blinding flash of passionate insight into man, and the life-giving caress of the Mediterranean...
...simple images that Camus rediscovers in the essays are the sun and sea of the North African shore, his remembrances of family, and his feeling for the physical life of the Mediterranean people. They illustrate the philosophical turn of mind that alienated him from his Algerian countrymen, whose basic attitude toward living left no room for abstract speculation. An old woman buys her own tomb and grows to love it. This teaches Camus the value of the present moment: "Let me cut this minute from the cloth of time. Others leave a flower between pages, enclosing in them a walk...